okaoka
1. (verb) (-ina,-ngia,-tia) to stab repeatedly, split open, split off, vaccinate.
Ki te pāngia e te mate kia tere te te hari ki te tākuta, hāunga te tohunga, i mua atu o te pānga ki te mate me okaoka ngā pakihiwi (TPH 31/7/1902:1). / If the disease strikes take the patient quickly to the doctor, not the tohunga, and before the disease strikes vaccinate on the shoulder.
2. (verb) to prick repeatedly, vaccinate (a number of people).
Kua tae atu hoki te kupu a te Kāwanatanga ki ngā tākuta Pākehā katoa e noho ana ki ngā kāinga Māori kia tahuri ki te okaoka i ngā tāngata - me oka noa, kāore he utu (TWMNT 17/7/1872:92). / The Government's decree to all Pākehā doctors living in Māori villages is to set about vaccinating the people - vaccinations should be free of charge.
pū okaoka
1. (noun) musket.
I a ia e taitamariki ana, ka neke tōna whānau ki Waikanae, ā, e ai anō ki tētehi kōrero, i tahawhenua haere i te tonga o Taranaki, kia hipa ai i ngā pū okaoka a Waikato (TTR 1994:181). / When he was young his family moved to Waikanae and, according to one version, moved around southern Taranaki to avoid Waikato's muskets.
Synonyms: ngutu pārera, purukumu, pū, pū hoata, pū ngutu pārera
